Britain's horrific new photo law

DRS wrote:
"Paul Arthur" wrote in message
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On 2009-02-22, DRS wrote:

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The rules on subordinate clauses haven't changed. For example, your
sentence cited above should read:

"It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to the theory that if it sounds the same what's the
difference?"
No, it should read 'It seams that modern righters, even those with
college degrees, subscribe to the theory "if it sounds the same,
what's the difference?"'

You added a missing comma and removed a necessary one. The original

I disagree that the one I removed was necessary, but adding the one to
properly delineate the subordinate clause was.

sentence wasn't particularly unreadable, and writing for usenet
doesn't need to be taken as seriously as professional writing. An
occasional lapse in grammar or spelling is quite forgivable.

I ordinarily don't comment on grammar or punctuation errors in Usenet but in
this instance it was relevant.


I find that spelling of 'seems' as 'seams', and 'writers' as 'righters'
in the message seriously weakens the argument about comma usage, which I
already corrected. Grin.

Ron Hunter wrote:
...Current
rules are often downright WRONG, such as putting ending punctuation
inside quotation marks if the sentence ends in a quotation. NOTHING
goes in quotation marks but the exact quotation.

That always looks wrong to me too, unless it's part of the quote, it
just looks sloppy inside the quote mark. I put the period outside unless
it's critical for the meaning.

self-consciously checking my comma usage


For instance;
Did Patrick Henry really say, "Give me liberty or give me death?" This
changes the whole meaning of the statement. Better: Did Patrick Henry
really say, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"?
Again, in the 1970s, those penny-pinching newspapers decided to save ink
by eliminating the 'extraneous' ending punctuation.


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"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "DRS"
saying something like:

The rules on subordinate clauses haven't changed. For example, your
sentence cited above should read:

"It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees, subscribe
to
the theory that if it sounds the same what's the difference?"

"It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to the theory that, 'If it sounds the same what's the
difference?'."

I've cleared that up a bit for you.

Me, I'd slip in an extra comma and move the full-stop, thusly:

It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to the theory that, 'If it sounds the same, what's the
difference?'" .

"Father Guido Sarducci" wrote in message
...
In message , "Deep Reset"
said:


"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "DRS"
saying something like:

The rules on subordinate clauses haven't changed. For example, your
sentence cited above should read:

"It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to
the theory that if it sounds the same what's the difference?"

"It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to the theory that, 'If it sounds the same what's the
difference?'."

I've cleared that up a bit for you.

Me, I'd slip in an extra comma and move the full-stop, thusly:

It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to the theory that, 'If it sounds the same, what's the
difference?'" .

It's so reassuring to know that some mother****ers **** in the wind about
semantics whilst Gordon Brown sodomizes (sodomises) you all day long.

Die violently.

"semantics" - sp. "punctuation"

Well, better than being butt-****ed by an ignorant cowboy for eight years, I
guess.

Have a nice day.

Deep Reset wrote:

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "DRS"
saying something like:

The rules on subordinate clauses haven't changed. For example, your
sentence cited above should read:

"It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to
the theory that if it sounds the same what's the difference?"

"It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to the theory that, 'If it sounds the same what's the
difference?'."

I've cleared that up a bit for you.

Me, I'd slip in an extra comma and move the full-stop, thusly:

It seems that modern writers, even those with college degrees,
subscribe to the theory that, 'If it sounds the same, what's the
difference?'" .

If you're going to "nit pick" over punctuation: the least you could do
is to have a quotation mark at the beginning, rather than just at the end.